A few days ago
What is the word for false modesty?
In more detail, i want an adjective to describe a person who seems to be very modest and unpretentious but he has a very subtle way to gain praise out of people, in other words false modesty
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Could not find a word that means that exactly but priggishness comes close. A prig is a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.
Tartuffery is the next best I could find. A tartuffe is a hypocrite, especially one who affects religious piety.
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A few days ago
manipulative – as in a person who is intelligent, but claims they aren’t in order to manipulate others into insisting that they are.
Ingratiating means having a calculatingly pleasing attitude, to get in someone’s good favor.
I couldn’t think of an antonym for “false modesty,” but a person who uses it is trying to manipulate the other person into praising them, which is why I mentioned manipulative.
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A few days ago
Anything I come up with (vainglorious, pompous, sycophantic) doesn’t really hit the mark
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A few days ago
obsequeious?
or how about ‘pseudomodest’ (not a real word, I suspect, but it seems to me you should be able to add the prefix ‘pseudo’ to pretty much any word you like!)
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A few days ago
insincere
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